Saro people
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The Saro, or Nigerian Creoles of the 19th and early 20th centuries, were Africans that were emancipated and initially resettled in Freetown, Sierra Leone by the Royal Navy, which, with the West Africa
An 1835 illustration of liberated slaves arriving in Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leone Creole people
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The Sierra Leone Creole people are an ethnic group of Sierra Leone. The Sierra Leone Creole people are descendants of freed African-American, Afro-Caribbean, and Liberated African slaves who settled i
Saro people
…from the 1830s, became known locally as Saro (elided form of Sierra Leone, from the Yoruba sàró). Consequently, the Saro are culturally descended from Sierra Leone Creoles, with ancestral roots to the Yoruba people of Nigeria. A related community of people were likewise known as Amaro, and were migrants from Brazil and…
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Freetown in 1803
Captain Paul Cuffee transported 38 African Americans to Freetown in 1815